Writing our blog…What it takes…What it does for us…What our readers mean to us…The interesting and the mundane…
Lizard in the house. Writing this blog began on March 15, 2012, almost 18 months ago. You can read the first post...
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Housekeeping for upcoming travel…
Definitely, not as much "stuff" on the bed when we originally packed almost a year ago. Two weeks from today, we'll...
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Tom’s online football experience…
The haze in the hills continues day after day with the high humidity. After signing up at NFL.com in order to watch...
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Updates and tidbits…Fun photos!…
A photo from guests staying at our upcoming rental house in South Africa. Doing laundry takes on a whole new meaning!...
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Turning off the brain long enough to sleep…
As a poor sleeper most of my life, a few years ago I went on a rampage researching methods to improve my...
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Sitting too much as we age?…
Having spent a lifetime in a constant flurry of activity, it's been refreshing doing nothing. It's a skill I've had to learn....
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Twenty days…Leaving Boveglio…Future travel plans…
The archway in our yard that ventures out to the winding, hilly roads, kept locked for privacy. these small villages in...
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Winning Powerball…What would we do?…
Santina brought us more vegetables when arriving to clean the house on Friday that we'll be using tonight in our homemade taco salads (minus the shells). No, we...
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Bats or just batty…
Common pipistrelle, Pipistrellus pipistrellus, common house bat, a much better photo I took from Wikipedia. I guess this is nothing compared to...
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Giving up favorite pastimes…For Tom, not the Minnesota Vikings…
Several months ago, Tom canceled his subscription to the Minneapolis StarTribune newspaper due to its inability to be downloaded several days...
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